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- From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: "User Friendly" Transit
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 06:32:08 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
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- References: <1993Jan3.032950.13351@pbhye.PacBell.COM>
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- In article <1993Jan3.032950.13351@pbhye.PacBell.COM> mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
- >Re: Service Improvement Ideas
- >
- > While riding the bus, it is often impossible to tell where we
- >are, especially after dark (e.g. on College Ave. between Webster
- >and Alcatraz). I could ask the driver to tell me when I get to my
- >stop, but I hate to bother them, and they might forget.
-
- Dude: buy one of these handheld, Global-Positioning-System
- receivers that will pinpoint yoor location within 3 meters,
- and pre-program it to beep when you get near your destination
- bus stop.
-
- >I ride the
- >bus partly because I can read while travelling (which I can't do
- >while bicycling or driving!). In order to read effectively, I have
- >to concentrate on what I am reading, and not be constantly thinking
- >about where the bus is and where my stop is. Or I might want to
- >sleep! These are just a few of the advantages of transit over
- >driving. I would like to see you take advantage of, and advertize,
- >all of these advantages.
-
- Quite a few A.C. transit customers take advantage of the
- "you can sleep on the bus" amenity ...
-
- In fact, if you tell the driver you want a certain stop,
- and then fall asleep, it would be quite rude of the driver
- to wake you up just because you reached your stop. Much
- more polite to let you catch some sleep.
-
- Steve
- (public-transit-dependent...)
-